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EXAMPLES OF PROJECTS IN HONG KONG Project TCL REF Project Description Client Lead Duration Completed Consultant of (year) Project (months) Hung Hom Bay Preparation of Planning Briefs for private The Great HOK 3 1987 Comprehensive sector commercial and residential Eagle International Development Area, Hong development on 39.5 ha. of reclaimed land Company Asia Pacific Kong taking account of the Kowloon-Canton Railway Limited Corporation terminal expansion on approx. 26 ha. of the reclaimed area. Specification of development parameters for all sites and a recommended development phasing plan. Proposed Underground Planning inputs to a Feasibility Study for Poly Mark Kenward 3 1989 Commercial proposed commercial development under an Development Consultancy Development Tai Pei area of Public Open Space. Advice on Limited Limited Square, Tsuen Wan, Hong planning aspects and development mix as Kong part of a Core Team of Architects, Engineers, Building Surveyors and Lawyers. Aerial Rapid Transit Planning advice to a private sector consortium Private Sector Acer 2 1989 System Feasibility Study, proposing an elevated railway system linking Consortium Consultants Kowloon South, Hong Tsim Sha Tsui and Hung Hom Bay. Advice on (Far East) Kong statutory planning aspects and the urban Limited design implications and planning constraints and opportunities pertaining to the alignment options, stations and terminus. Development Feasibility Feasibility and Market Study entailing an The Bank of TOWNLAND 3 1990 Study of a Site at assessment of the development context; East Asia Belcher’s Street and review of the property market in respect of Limited Kennedy Town Praya, office, residential and retail uses; generation Hong Kong of development options; and financial analysis in association with Chartered Surveyors. Tai Kok Tsui Urban Comprehensive Planning Study; TOWNLAND Planning TOWNLAND 7 1990 Renewal Study, Kowloon, led a multi-disciplinary team to study indepth Department, Hong Kong urban renewal problems and implementation Hong Kong prospects in the Tai Kok Tsui area. Urban Government renewal action plans were also prepared and Land comprising conceptual land use - transport Development options & implementation proposals. The Corporation Study includes an assessment of development/ redevelopment opportunities provided by the West Kowloon Expressway and the connecting east-west elevated road links. Site Investigation and TOWNLAND was responsible for the Territory Maunsell – 9 1990 Engineering Study for assessment of the land use context, especially Development Scott Wilson Development of potential development opportunities, physical Department, Kirkpatrick Container Terminal No.8, constraints and local concerns, in respect of Hong Kong Hong Kong some 440 hectares of land within which major Government infrastructure provision was required. TOWNLAND also undertook a comprehensive evaluation of alternative sites for the Container Terminal and prepared a Conceptual Land Use Plan illustrating the pattern of land use and the relationship of the port facilities with their surroundings. In addition, TOWNLAND facilitated gazettal procedures and advised on public objections. Page 1 of 65 EXAMPLES OF PROJECTS IN HONG KONG Project TCL REF Project Description Client Lead Duration Completed Consultant of (year) Project (months) Trans Peak Railway TOWNLAND was responsible for land use The Hongkong Maunsell 20 1990 Feasibility Study, Hong assessment; socio-economic assessment; and Shanghai Kong development and re-development potential Hotels Limited appraisal; site identification, preparation of planning briefs and site concept plans and advising on planning and design guidelines for the terminal station and depot sites; and the planning report preparation and production in respect of an 11 km public Light Transit System from downtown Central District to centres on the south side of Hong Kong Island. The scheme included 3 potential terminal station sites, 9 intermediate station sites, one 4.5 ha. depot site and an assessment of development potential along the route. Redevelopment of the Planning and development advice to The Hongkong Client 5 1990 Sites adjoining the Upper prospective tenderer for a prime and Shanghai Peak Tram Station, Hong commercial/tourism re-development site at Hotels Limited Kong the Peak. Assessment of alternative development options and mixes as inputs to viability and feasibility assessments by Client. Upper Peak Tram Station, Master Plan for commercial redevelopment Peak Client 2 1990 Hong Kong on land adjoining the Tram Station, to include Tramways support facilities for the Peak Tram terminus. Company TOWNLAND provided planning and urban Limited design input for a scheme including tram/bus interchange facilities, car parking, commercial/tourist facilities and public park. South East Tsing Yi Port Identification of development constraints and Territory Maunsell- 9 1991 Development Planning opportunities and preparation of land use - Development Scott Wilson and Engineering Study, transport conceptual option plans with a view Department, (Hong Kong) Hong Kong to recommending a Preferred Development Hong Kong Limited Plan for Container Terminal No.9 and land Government uses along the South East Coast of Tsing Yi. Salisbury Garden and Feasibility studies, Rezoning of a public open New World TOWNLAND 35 1991 Salisbury Road, Tsim Sha space and detailed proposals to enable Development Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong private sector investment schemes to develop Company Hong Kong’s largest integrated underground Limited & The retail / carpark complex with comprehensive Hongkong and underground pedestrian network, seafront Shanghai promenade and 1 ha. of public garden on the Hotels Limited waterfront as public planning gain. Tai Po Kau Recreation TOWNLAND were successful in securing a Private Sector TOWNLAND 12 1991 Priority Area, Hong Kong composite private residential and public recreational (with boating centre and club house) development on 17 ha. of land in Hong Kong’s first statutory Recreation Priority Area. TOWNLAND coordinated the inputs of the multi-disciplinary team, compiled the technical reports and presented the proposals to the Town Planning Board. Page 2 of 65 EXAMPLES OF PROJECTS IN HONG KONG Project TCL REF Project Description Client Lead Duration Completed Consultant of (year) Project (months) Territorial Land Drainage Preparation of a detailed land use planning Drainage Binnie/ 7 1992 and Flood Control database to cover the principal river basins in Services Maunsell Strategy Study (Phase II), the New Territories of Hong Kong. The Department, Consultants Hong Kong database forms a layer within a GIS system Hong Kong J.V. forming part of a series of River Basin Government Management Plans. The planning database categorises land within the river basins according to run-off characteristics (eg. arable land, hill-slope, residential area) and builds a number of planning scenarios for testing during the course of the Study against land drainage and flood control objectives. The Base Growth scenario (ie. existing and committed development) will form a permanent layer in the Basin Management Plan database. An extensive Growth Scenario was also postulated. MTR Tai Kok Tsui Station The purpose of this Study was to provide a Mass Transit Colliers Jardine 3 1992 Development Planning background planning context for the Railway Assessment, Kowloon, proposed Comprehensive Development Area Corporation Hong Kong (CDA) associated with the MTR Tai Kok Tsui Station Site. The objective was to allow MTRC to reconsider the proposed develoment mix based on the acceptability of changes in relation to planning intentions and statutory planning provisions, as well as financial viability. The Study recommended alternative development mixes which would likely be more acceptable from a land use planning point of view. Initial Feasibility Study for TOWNLAND was the Study Coordinator in this Sino Land TOWNLAND 12 1992 Potential Pedestrian Feasibility Study for possible underground Company Links, Underground development at Tsim Sha Tsui. The Study Limited Carparking and Team included planners, engineers, traffic Commercial consultants, architects, landscapers, Developments beneath economists, lawyers, environmental Public Streets and Open consultants and building surveyors. The Space, Tsim Sha Tsui, Study reviewed the strategic and district / local Kowloon, Hong Kong planning context for the Study Area; established a broad land use / engineering / traffic database to facilitate a preliminary development appraisal with a view to identifying possible underground development; identified the planning / engineering / traffic opportunities and constraints for possible underground development; formulated conceptual development schemes; and highlighted the key development and implementation issues for further investigation. Page 3 of 65 EXAMPLES OF PROJECTS IN HONG KONG Project TCL REF Project Description Client Lead Duration Completed Consultant of (year) Project (months) Mount Butler Quarry TOWNLAND was responsible for all land use Civil P&T Wallace 8 1992 Rehabilitation Study, planning aspects and the co-ordination of the Engineering Evans Limited Hong Kong planning/lands team for inputs to the Department, formulation and evaluation of the land use Hong Kong options, the detailing (Master Plan) of the Government preferred option and the implementation programme for the rehabilitation of a Government quarry within a designated urban fringe park. Kowloon Point
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